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Professor of Medicine

School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Baime has practiced meditation since he was 14 years old, and has taught mindfulness meditation since 1983. His experience as a physician and specialist in internal medicine led him to create the Penn Program for Mindfulness in 1992. He has developed customized mindfulness-based programs for numerous groups, including people living with cancer, healthcare providers, police officers, adults with ADHD, and smokers attempting to quit. His work joins traditional mindfulness meditation techniques with the insights of neuroscience and the methods of modern cognitive behavioral psychology to create powerfully effective vehicles for change and personal growth.

Dr. Baime also participates in research on the cognitive neuroscience of meditation; on the relationship between mindfulness, spirituality, and empathy; and on the behavioral and health benefits of mindfulness training. He is currently based at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Awards and Credentials

Appel Award for Student Work in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania

Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania

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A lifelong seeker and learner, over the last 30 years Catherine Ewing has studied to become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Ordained Minister of Spiritual Peacemaking, Certified Dream Coach and Dream Coach Group Leader, Passion Test Facilitator, Reiki Master Teacher and Emotional Freedom Technique practitioner. She has also studied other energy healing modalities and personal transformation programs.

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Andrea Mathews is an author, psychotherapist, corporate trainer, and motivational and inspirational speaker. She has over 30 years of experience in the mental health field, the last 14 of those in a thriving private practice, providing Transpersonal Therapy and Cognitive Therapy to individuals and couples on a variety of issues. Cognitive Therapy is an approach in which one works with thoughts, self-talk and beliefs to change patterns that are not working and develop new ways of interacting with self and others. Transpersonal Therapy assists persons in developing beyond the personal, through spiritual and soulful connections with self, others and transcendence itself. There is no religion in Transpersonal approaches, in fact one can be an atheist and participate in Transpersonal Therapy, for its main thrust is assisting the person in becoming conscious of and beginning to live out of the authentic Self.

Mathew is the author of Restoring My Soul: A Workbook for Finding and Living the Authentic Self, in which she addresses the transition from mask, costume and role to the authentic Self. Drawing from the theories presented in the book, Mathews hosts a radio show called Authentic Living, on VoiceAmerica.com the 7th Wave Network. The show has been syndicated now for over three years with reaches a large international audience. Her guests on show have included some of the world's most profound, prolific, bestselling authors and spiritual leaders, who have helped me to explain the journey to the authentic Self to our listeners. The list of guests includes Marianne Williamson, Gary Zukav, Neale Donald Walsch, Joan Borysenko, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Caroline Myss, Dr. Judith Orloff, Thomas Moore, Michael Brown, Dan Millman, Bruce Lipton and many more.

Additionally, she is the author of The Law Of Attraction: The Soul's Answer To Why It Isn't Working And How It Can, writes a blog for Psychology Today called Traversing the Inner Terrain, and is currently working on another book.

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Deborah Roth is a Spiritual Whole Life Coach who works primarily with overwhelmed, under-nurtured women (and a few good men), guiding them through life and career transitions so that they can make big changes in their lives and a lasting difference in the world. She offers powerful, structured programs for groups and individuals, and speaks, teaches, and writes on the subjects of women’s empowerment, radical self-care, conscious relationships, and managing life’s big changes.

In addition, as a licensed Inter-faith Minister, she creates unique, powerful wedding ceremonies and was the only wedding officiant on Modern Bride’s list of “Top 25 Trendsetters in the Wedding Industry”, as well as serving on their Advisory Board. Her Master’s thesis explored the power of transformative ritual.

For the past 15 years, Roth has facilitated monthly New Moon SisterCircles, Full Moon TeleMeditations (over the phone) and a year-long Women’s Spirituality program. She has authored two books – The Authentic Woman PlayBook, and Circle of One: the Art of becoming a Self-centered Woman, and am a Founding Coach for Empower Parties™ and for Purpose Journey™ - and has been featured in the New York Times, New York Newsday, Modern Bride, Seventeen Magazine, and Utne magazine, as well as appearing on The Learning Channel's (TLC), A Wedding Story, the documentary, Potential Partners, and on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

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Dr. Vickie Chang is an integrative therapist with extensive training in cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic approaches to treatment. Cognitive behavioral therapy works on identifying critical thoughts about yourself that can interfere with how you feel and behave. In therapy Chang practice ways to challenge these thoughts and to develop more supportive ways of relating to yourself. The behavioral aspect of this treatment focuses on changing behaviors to improve well-being, for instance through taking care of your body or learning to be assertive. Psychodyamic therapy helps to identify the contribution of family relationships to patterns of behavior, increase emotional awareness, and improve your sense of freedom and choice in life.

Chang holds a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.A. and Ph.D. UCLA. She also held postdoctoral fellowships at the Stanford Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. She has a vast range of clinical experience and is widely published.

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Dr. Marjorie Rand is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child therapist in three states and has been practicing psychotherapy for 35 years. She has also taught graduate level psychology and trained professional psychotherapists in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Israel. Dr. Rand specializes in marriage counseling, developmental psychology, pre and perinatal psychology (pregnancy, birth and bonding) and family therapy. Dr. Rand is the author of three books, many published articles, and is a founding member of the United States Association of Body Psychotherapy. She is also a diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association.

As well as being a family therapist, she is the mother of two, the stepmother of four, and the grandmother of four children (spanning ages 12 to 48). This has given her unique experience in working with issues of parenting, blended families, step parenting, family dynamics and relationships, be it between parents and children or spouses.

She believes her clients have the answers they need inside of them, and she gently guides them to a greater connection to their own inner knowing. With that internal connection to their sense of self, they can deal with their everyday problems of living. In these stressful and anxiety producing times, it is essential that we all learn to self regulate our nervous systems through mindfulness meditation and breathwork in order to function in a healthy way and strengthen our immune systems.

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